MTG pushes back on explosive mainstream report: ‘A DANGEROUS LIE’

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene strongly denied a report from Axios that the White House contacted the Secret Service about potentially tipping off Code Pink about the president’s whereabouts last fall

by Summer Lane | January 9, 2026

Former Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene pushed back on Friday against an explosive report from Axios alleging that the White House contacted the Secret Service last fall about a security situation at a Washington, D.C., restaurant.

Greene, who left Congress only days ago after resigning mid-term, called the report an “ABSOLUTE LIE, A DANGEROUS LIE” in a social media post responding to the alleged scoop.

She included a long explanation that she said she related to the journalist who wrote the story, attacking the writer as a “little WH tool that wrote this absurd, dangerous LIE about me on behalf of the WH because they are mad at me for telling the truth about the President and forcing the release of the Epstein files.”

Axios’s reporting alleges that last fall, the White House told the Secret Service that Greene may have been the one who tipped off far-left Code Pink activists that the president would be dining at a D.C. restaurant, Joe’s Seafood. The restaurant was allegedly a location Greene had recommended to the president.

While the president was there, Code Pink activists within the restaurant made a spectacle, pulling Palestinian flags out of their purses and jeering at the president and members of his cabinet, like Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, as they walked by.

The situation sparked debate about how the Code Pink protestors were even allowed to be in the building when the president was dining at the location, and why they even knew the president was going to be there.

Axios conceded in its report – which is based upon information from two unnamed internal White House sources – that it was “unclear whether Greene is being investigated by the Secret Service, which declined to comment.”

Ms. Greene, however, has remained firm in her response that the report is untrue, amid rising online speculation, given Greene’s apparent relationship with Code Pink, as seen here in a post dating all the way back to 2023:

The September restaurant debacle, of course, occurred nearly two years after the above post. She clarified in her statement on X, “I do not have Medea Benjamin’s phone number and do not have any contact with her. She used to stop by my office as she stops by every office on Capitol hill.”

Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of Code Pink.

Ms. Greene hit back at Axios with additional comments:

“Code Pink was in the restaurant because the WH and Secret Service did NOT sweep Joe’s, did NOT set up metal detectors and check everyone in the restaurant, and did not do any of their normal security protocols that they do at every public event he attends!!! Only the WH set up President Trump’s reservation at Joe’s, NOT ME!! I had ZERO knowledge of when his reservation was! The only people who could have tipped off Code Pink was the restaurant or the WH!”

Additionally, Ms. Greene’s fiancé, White House correspondent Brian Glenn, came to her defense on X: “This article from Axios is a complete lie. Marjorie would never do anything to endanger the President. Come on, it’s absurd to even allude to that. She had zero knowledge of when any planned visit would take place, nor did she tell anyone that a possible visit would happen. I know, because I was there for it all.”